News and Rumors

Looking for a deal on a PlayBook? If you don't mind a refurbished one, you can snag a 16GB PlayBook for $89 plus shipping and taxes. Cowboom.com, Best Buy's offshoot clearance site, has refurbished ones (not in pristine condition of course..) on sale until supplies last.

When new smartphones launch, some of the things that everyone needs upon purchase are accessories. Most of us don't want to damage our devices when we drop them, so generally a case or cover will be the first purchase we make for our new phones. With BlackBerry 10, this will be no different.
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Just yesterday we got a glimpse at a few screenshots of what it will look like to use the native Story Maker app coming to BlackBerry 10. Today, we get to see a video of the finished results of the Story Maker app. Story Maker takes your photos,
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They aren't showing us the greatest detail, but these recent leaked screenshots (see below) of Adobe Reader and Story Maker apps on BlackBerry 10 are promising to us that we will be getting some great native app support. We haven't heard much on Adobe Reader yet, however, we have had some
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It's in B&W, but we'll take em' as we can get. This recent photo of what is going to be the first BlackBerry N-Series device, rumored to be called the BlackBerry X10, is the closest shot to date that we have had of the elusive device. Just a couple days ago an image leaked showing
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One of my biggest gripes with RIM over the past two years is how incomplete the PlayBook still feels without BBM. Yes, I know we can bridge our BlackBerry smartphones to it and BBM to our hearts content, but at this juncture, it really should have BBM natively. True, RIM has been putting
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January 30th is only 39 days away and the anticipation of what will be announced by RIM gets more and more intense. Little by little, we're finding out more specs about the two devices that are expected to be introduced.

Police in Sussex, England are being outfitted with the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet as part of their daily gear for policing duties. The PlayBook provides the Sussex Police Department with the ability to keep track of traffic stop history, witness statement recording capability, command
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Tis' the season not only for the winter Holidays, but also for nasty winter weather as well. Donny from the InsideBB Blog has compiled a list of great weather apps that you can use on your BlackBerry device to help you get through those times when knowing the weather can be an advantage.
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Radio Player is like a personal jukebox on your BlackBerry PlayBook. With over 60,000 radio stations to choose from, you'll never run out of interesting music, news, sports, to listen to! Also, as mentioned in the title, look for Radio Player to hit the BlackBerry 10 platform. You
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A key part of Research In Motion's executive team is headed towards retirement at the end of the year. Chief Information Officer Robin Bienfait announced her plans to retire at the end of the year. Her announcement came on the heels of RIM's Third Quarter Earnings report.
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Has the MKM Partners Managing Director, Mike Genovese, slipped and revealed that "BlackBerry Z10" will be the official name of the L-Series device? BBin has noticed in a recent FoxBusiness video interview, that Genovese called the device the BlackBerry Z10. But was he simply
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Last month a Swedish arbitrator ruled in favor of Nokia in a contract dispute over Nokia's WLAN patents and other related items. Now RIM has decided to put the quarrel to an end, agreeing that the deal will see it license Nokia patents, while both parties will withdraw "all
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What happens when a major photo tech company goes bankrupt? Outsider battles begin to claim what valuables are left. In the case of Kodak, it's patents. And they hold a lot of them. Apple, Google, and RIM have agreed to buy patents from Kodak to the tune of a cool 525 million dollars,
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